Part 5 Chapter 28 Portland Noir Notes to the Screenwriter

Notes to the Screenwriter1

Your task is to insert the dialogue below into the stage directions above. Portland Noir is a parody of Snow Crash with Our Hiro and Yours Truly acting out the stage directions of The Maltese Falcon using the dialogue of Stephenson, Cather, and Hemmingway.2

Recall that Da5id, Our Hiro, and Raven are all sides of one man.3

Juanita, Y.T. and Yours Truly are all sides of the same woman.4

We are collapsing scenes, and characters, and dialogue. 5

This ten minute film is a time compression.6

My Antonia by Willa Cather (paper 2006) 7

(An' -ton -ee -ah) (p. Xf)8

"the best days are the first to flee." 9

("The Big Read," NeftA) (pp. 3, 14) (p. 233)10

"Now read me a chapter in 11

'The Prince of the House of David.'" (p. 77)12

[In the house of Da5id.]13

Our Hiro: "He [Da5id] don't like this [country]." (p. 76)14

Yours Truly: "… [he] ought to stay at home."15

Our Hiro: {aside} "… [she] wants other people's things."16

Yours Truly: "Why not help [me]?"17

Our Hiro: {aside} " [as] If I got [everything] …18

Yours Truly: {aside} "… like you [have], …."19

Our Hiro: " … I [would] make [things] much better." (p. 75)20

Yours Truly: "I never made anything…" 21

Our Hiro: {aside} "… with my eyes." (p. 144)22

Yours Truly: "Your are quite comfortable here, … (p. 229)23

Our Hiro: "I am in business for myself."24

Yours Truly: "I have made a really good start."25

Our Hiro: "Perhaps it’s your clothes…"26

Yours Truly: "You like my new suit?" 27

Our Hiro: "I have to dress pretty good in this business."28

Yours Truly: {aside} "… aren't you?" 29

Our Hiro: " that makes the difference."30

Yours Truly: Look at you. You owe me. (p. 239)31

Our Hiro: {aside} "'Look, all of you, I owe this woman nothing.'" 32

Yours Truly: "Look at me." (p. 230)33

Our Hiro: What a prince am I!34

Yours Truly: " … won't you make Prince behave?" (p. 246)35

Our Hiro: "This old chap will be proposing to you someday." (p. 249)36

Yours Truly: "Oh, he has -- often!" 37

Our Hiro: "Every handsome girl like you marries." (p. 250)38

Yours Truly: {aside} "Of course!"39

Our Hiro: {aside} "Nonsense!"40

Yours Truly: "Haven't I been nice to you?"41

Our Hiro: "You are going."42

Yours Truly: "… but you haven't gone yet, have you?"43

Our Hiro: "You were such a funny kid!" (p. 252)44

Yours Truly: "Not me." (p. 250)45